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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
come just then, and just when there were

vapors to condense? And what caused the

vapors? Then how could currents from the

west and south draw the vapors “in a

northwest direction”? Common philosophy

would assign them, under such circumstances,

a northeasterly direction. Our friend must be

careful, or he will make the dark day to be a

greater phenomenon than we have ever

claimed it to be.

But, further, we would ask how, according to

the reply above given, the words of our Lord

can ever be fulfilled. He says that the sun shall

be darkened; and he means the literal sun, for

he speaks of men and things on the earth in

contrast with it. Luke 21:25. And he says that

when it is thus darkened, it is a sign of the end;

for when we see these things come to pass, he